Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . run to Flushing and College Point from 59thStreet and Second Avenue, New York, for 5 cents fare in less than onehour; and the Long Island Railroad operates 30 trains a day from Penn-sylvania station in 18 minutes to Flushing. Commutation is $ permonth. Appreciation of the coming Subway service to the Flushing sectionwill prompt the forehanded to secure a home in Flushing or vicinity bybuying, before the rise in prices, a plot of ground for
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . run to Flushing and College Point from 59thStreet and Second Avenue, New York, for 5 cents fare in less than onehour; and the Long Island Railroad operates 30 trains a day from Penn-sylvania station in 18 minutes to Flushing. Commutation is $ permonth. Appreciation of the coming Subway service to the Flushing sectionwill prompt the forehanded to secure a home in Flushing or vicinity bybuying, before the rise in prices, a plot of ground for future building or aresidence already erected. 5 You Blame THKE ARtTv^ Reasons VhYI LIVE IN TLVSHttW ONE ReASotf TVAvS BOfeN HE^:,Th£ OTHER-ONE1mpBe^jpe:s nYPAvms -WERE LlVTNnYThin6 it is nt 7he Fault ofOUR^CMooLS. IF J An Not >WPY ^AV£ EVeRYTH INC KCRCHEALTH ANj)HAPP/A/e^. WHY I LIVE IN FLUSHING By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER, the Author THIS May morning, as I sit before my typewriter, I can look out ofmy window and see the pale green leaves of a thousand treesquivering in the sunlight, and the blue sky through the networkof the upper branches, and the white clouds drifting across the blue. Ican hear the breeze, in little gusts, whispering through the trees. WhenI close my eyes I hear the same nature sounds that I hear when I amstretched out flat on my back on some mountain side in the Catskills,a hundred and fifty miles from the heart of civilization. I am far fromthe rush of dusty, dirty city life. I am in a placid, beautiful countrytown. My telephone rings. Someone in New York must see me. Eighteenminutes in the cleanest and most comfortable of steel cars, on a swiftelectric train, puts me in the very heart of Manhattan! I live in acountry town that is a veritable park, and I am nearer the heart ofManhattan than those who live in the crowded tenement-beset B
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